Chair



Dec. 23, 1969 R. N. ROANE CHAIR 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Jan. 18, 1968 HG-z FIG. l

ATTORNEY Dec. 23, 1969 R. N. ROANE 3,485530 CHAIR Filed Jan. 18, 1968 3 Sxeets-Sheet 2 FIG. 4

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-. INVENTOR ROBERT RONE AT'TORNEYS' R. N. ROANE Dec. 23.1989

cHAIR 3 Sheets-Sheet 5 Filed Jan. 18, 1968 FIG. 5

INVENTOR ROBERT RONE BY/f'fi'fig'w ATTORNEY:

United States Patent O 3,485,530 CHAIR Robert N. Roane, Richmond, Va. (1121 Myrtle Ave., B2 Apt. 65, Charlotte, N.C. 28203) Filed Jan. 18, 1968, Ser. No. 698,913 Int. Cl. A47c 3/00 U.S. Cl. 297-445 2 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A chair is disclosed in which the floor contacting and seat and back supporting members comprise a p1urality of identically shaped members which are assembled to form a substantially semcircular chair of the pedestal type.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION In the furniture art it has long been desired to form articles of furniture and particularly chairs of such construction that they lend themselves readily to mass production techniques and yet when assembled form a decorative and aesthetically appealing article. This is particularly true of wooden furniture and it is to wooden furniture that the present invention is primarily addressed.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to what may be termed a pedestal chair, one embodiment of which is semcircular in shape and which lends itself readily to mass production techniques. It is the principal object of the present invention to provide a novel chair design which can be fabricated largely from a plurality of identcally shaped pieces which are then assembled together with a seat and back rails to form the finished product. Various arrangements of the identical parts are possible in order to provide any desired shape of chair or seat.

In order to achieve this object, the floor contacting, seat supporting, back supporting, and pedestal portons of the chair are formed by assembling a plurality of identcally shaped members with the pedestal portons in contact with each other. They may be arranged in a semicircle, a half oval, or a wedge shape by way of example. Another alternative would be to assemble two or more groups of such members spaced from each other in order to form a couch or settee. The thus assembled plurality of identical members are joined in the desired position and then the seat is attached to the seat supporting surfaces and back rail members are attached to the uppermost portion of the identical members to complete the assembly.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIGURE 1 is a front elevation of a preferred embodiment of a chair in accordance With the present invention;

FIGURE 2 is a top plan view of the chair shown in FIGURE 1;

FIGURE 3 is a side elevation of the chair shown in FIGURE 1;

FIGURE 4 is a rear elevation of the chair shown in FIGURE l; and

FIGURE 5 is a sectional view on the lines 5-5 of FIGURE 1.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Referring first to FIGURE 1 of the attached drawings,

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it will be seen that the chair in accordance with this invention includes a plurality of identical structural members 10. Each of these members includes a floor-engaging portion 12, a Vertical pedestal portion 14, a substantially horizontal seat supporting portion 16 and a back supporting portion 18.

As shown most clearly in FIGURE 2, these members are assembled substantially as spokes on a wheel so that two of them lie in the same plane but facing in opposite directions and the remainder radiate outwardly at substantially equal intervals between these two.

In order to assemble the chair, the identical structural units 10 are first gathered together in the position shown in FIGURES 1 and 2 and the pedestal portons 14 are united in any convenient manner such, for example, as by the use of wedges shown at 19 in FIGURES 2-5, inclusive. The seat proper identified by the numeral 20 and which is substantially semcircular in plan view as shown in FIGURE 2 is then assembled onto the seat supporting portion 16 of the members 10 in any convenient manner and, for example, by wood screws as indicated at 22 in FIGURE 2.

Lastly, the back rails 24 are assembled to the uppermost ends of the portons 18 of the members 10 and, here again, the assembly may be by way of gluing or any other conventional method of assembly.

From the foregoing it will be apparent to those skilled in this art that there is herein shown and described a new and novel pedestal chair structure which lends itself readily to mass production techniques.

I claim:

1. A chair comprising in combination:

a plurality of identically shaped integral members, each including a first portion adapted when in use to be in substantially horizontal position to engage a floor or other supporting surface, a second pedestal portion extending vertically upwardly from one end of said first portion, a third seat supporting portion extending substantially parallel to and overlying said first portion, and a fourth back supporting portion extending generally vertically upwardly from the end of said third portion, said members being positioned with their second portion arranged to form a central pedestal and the remaining portons radiating outwardly from said pedestal;

a seat overlying and joined to said third portion of said members;

back rails joining the upper ends of said fourth portions; and

means joining said pedestal portons of said members.

2. A chair as defined by claim 1 in which two of said plurality of members are positioned in the same plane facing each other and the remaining of said members are distributed substantially evenly therebetween forming an approximate semicircle.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,503,933 4/1950 Brewer 297-445 2,994,558 8/1961 Draxler 297-445 3,226,161 12/1965 Platner 297-449 CASMIR A. NUNBERG, Primary Examiner U.S. C1. X.R. 297-446 

